We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

Every man and every woman is a star.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.